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wylies99
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semphoon
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: Re: Can anyone explain the meaning of this political cartoon |
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| http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2895115 |
No.
So I came up with my own...
This nice cup of Chinese tea is believed to cure hemroids |
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t-rock
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: |
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The guy with the flying top hat looks like a cross between Stan Laurel and Don Knotts. I wonder if he is supposed to be someone in particular, or just your typical businessman type guy.
Also, it looks like maybe he's supposed to be running away in terror from the Chinese guy. |
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The Bobster
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: |
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I'm thinking about a very old James bond movie, possibly Goldfinger, but definitely one of the early Sean Connery ones. There was an Asian dude who looked like that and he had leadlined derbies that he used to take off the heads of granite statues, just by throwing them like a frisbee.
What any of it has to do with the tainted milk thing in China, though ... no clue. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:08 am Post subject: |
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Not that I've ever been a huge Bond fan, but I think the guy you're referring to is named Oddjob.
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Oddjob is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger. In the film he was played by the Japanese American actor Harold Sakata.
Oddjob (besides Jaws) is the strongest character in the Bond series. He is superior in unarmed combat skills to Bond in both film and novel, and therefore must be killed by application of superior cunning (by depressurization in the book and electrocution in the film).
The character of Oddjob, from his unusual appearance, manners, strength and method of killing, forms the archetype for many privileged senior henchmen of the Bond film series, including Tee Hee, Jaws, Nick Nack, Chang, and Gobinda.
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Oddjob, so named by Goldfinger, is Korean-born, and, much like in the film, is extremely strong, proven in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and the mantel of a fireplace with his foot. An expert at karate, Oddjob is also expert with a bow and arrow, and with his metal bowler hat. He is a ruthless killer, but also acts as Goldfinger's personal guard, driver, and manservant (though not his golf caddy). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when food was in short supply (Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of surveillance film, and as punishment, sees the cat given to Oddjob for dinner). He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an airplane, which depressurises the plane and sucks Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.
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